Weekend Review

This weekend definitely had it's ups and downs. Let's start with the ups!

On Saturday, I spent the day attempting to Christmas shop. I have realized that I'm totally an online Christmas shopper. I was only able to find a few items in store. Amazon just kills stores on their prices. The same thing is SO much cheaper and with free shipping. I ended up with way more stuff for myself than I did for other people. Which isn't what should happen when you are going Christmas shopping. The items that I got for myself? Well I got this little beauty from Beezy as an early Christmas present...

Remember the nutcrackers that I was obsessed with buying the last two years? Well guess what... Cost World Market came out with a new set for this Christmas season. Instead of chasing them all over town before they start to sell out, I went ahead and bought the entire set. Yep. Sure did. Judge away. But guess what, I'm happy!

 

Now for the bad. My finger nails have taken a beating over the last few years. My last job which was with government required that I wear disposable gloves a lot. Have you ever had your hand in a glove like that for hours of the day? No. Well guess what they'll kill your nails. So I would never get them done. I didn't see the point in basically wasting money on doing my nails. They wouldn't been seen half the day, they'd get tore up and basically be a waste of my hard earned money. So after years of not getting them done, I went to a nail place to get them done. I went in wanting a gel manicure on a full set of nails. My real nails are too short and uneven. She placed my hands on the table where I couldn't really see them because they hung in her direction. She did one hand and I was like OH MY!

 

She literally didn't file them down even. She put gel on them. On my real nail and didn't even do a good job painting them. Take a look for yourself...

HORRIBLE! I wanted to cry! I tried to explain to her that I needed a nail placed on my nail. She wasn't understanding at all. There was a language barrier and it wasn't working out. So I left. Now I've got to wait till this gel starts to wear off and then I can go get it done at a DIFFERENT place. So the poor girl at Top Nail who couldn't even paint each nail all the way, thank you. Seriously, I could have done a better job painting my own nails with one eye shut and using my left hand to paint.

 

Other than that... my weekend was pretty good!

 

Oh! I ate at PF Changs for the first time and it was SO good!

It's Getting Nutty

It all started with a little trip to World Market to find some candy theme ornaments for my mom's new tree that she's starting. I walked away with two ornaments and these guys...

I had never bought a Christmas nutcracker until this year. I had always thought they were a little creepy and usually hideously ugly. However, there was something about these little guys that I just thought was too cute. I saw Jesse the cowboy sitting on the shelf first. Since I have a major life connection with the movie Romancing the Stone and the main character in Joan's novels is named Jesse, I knew I had to buy it. Then I couldn't let Jesse just sit in my house alone so of course I bought five. Did I mention they were on sale? 

Then I thought, well I've already bought five maybe I should get a few more in the collection. So I returned to World Market and came home with these guys...

At this point I had bought 11 nutcrackers and since there was only 18 in the set, I figured I might as well go for the whole collection. So I returned to World Market a few days later and picked up the remaining ones that I didn't have to add to my collection....

So in total, I've got 16 nutcrackers. There is 18 in the set and I'm missing two! Only two! I've called all three World Market's in my area and NONE of them have the two I need. So I've enlisted the help of some of my friends to see if they can hunt down the two I need at their local World Markets. Normally, I would just go to their website and order them but sadly you have to buy them in sets of three and I already have the other ones in the sets. So I'm patiently waiting to see if they can find them! 

Incase you were wondering, I need the Scottish guy playing bag pipes and the Mexican one wearing a poncho and sombrero. In the meantime, they guard my fabulous candy tree....